Museum sheds light
M-Shed, Museum of Bristol, Bristol.
A £27 million museum by the Australian firm behind Melbourne’s Federation Square has opened in Bristol today.
M Shed, designed by Lab Architecture, is housed in the restored 1950s transit sheds at Princes Wharf, close to the SS Great Britain.
The museum, created to celebrate Bristol’s impact on the UK and the rest of the world, contains three permanent galleries and a glazed rooftop extension.
It will feature 3,000 exhibits as well as workshops, learning suite, café, book and gift shop and a functioning train shed.
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Looking at the Museum's website and I have to wonder what the purpose of this place is. After the hype dies down it will, at very best, be competing for the same visitors as the City Museum and reducing it’s revenue. Opening with an exhibition of Martin Parr, a photographer whose work largely revolves around making fun of those who don’t share his middle class world view, is symptomatic of the disconnect between curators/cognoscenti and those who need to be buying overpriced sandwiches and pencil sharpeners in these places.